Using drugs to cure a drug addiction

Medication used to curb opiate use

5:44 AM,
May 1, 2013

Written by

Russ Zimmer
CentralOhio.com

On Friday, the state released sobering data showing more people had died in 2011 in Ohio from unintentional drug overdose than any year before. Four days later, the people who are ultimately going to solve this problem - if it can be solved - gathered to talk about answers.

And the answer to this drug scourge could be more, albeit different, drugs.

There is a not insignificant part of the population that finds it prohibitively counter-intuitive to treat substance abuse with more substances, said Orman Hall, director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. The freshness ...